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New York Times
Public Lives
Curator of the Objects of Terrible Memory
By ROBIN FINN
BEING chief curator of a disaster not yet parsed by history is a
curious, close to unprecedented assignment. Possibly that best explains
why Jan Seidler Ramirez, curator of the nascent memorial museum at
ground zero, stashed a fiberglass Statue of Liberty, the unbuilt
museum’s first major acquisition, in her office kitchen under lock and
key.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/nyregion/08lives.html?>
Bringing to Light the History of the Laborers Who Built New York ...
New York Times - United States
... She and a fellow archivist, Gabrielle Sanchez, who worked for the
society,
listed ... Ms. Greene says that the archive shelves are not ideal for
preservation and ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/nyregion/08trades.html?ref=nyregion>
New York Times, Wed, 06 Sep 2006 8:26 PM PDT
Washington: Documents to Be Made Public Again
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/07/washington/07brfs-006.html
The head of the National Archives said that most of the thousands of
historical documents withdrawn by government agencies because of
secrecy claims since 1999 would be made publicly available again. In an
update to a group of researchers, Allen Weinstein, archivist of the
United States, said the secret removal of documents had been virtually
?stopped in its tracks.? The Air Force and the Central
Keeping the records straight
Tri-Town Transcript - Beverly,MA,USA
... he has collected from several locations, cleaned and organized into
a town archive. ... about its municipal records, according to Carroll,
a certified archivist. ...
<http://www2.townonline.com/boxford/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=57178
9>
Thousands delve into Government paperwork
Ireland Online - Dublin,Ireland
Almost 15,000 requests were made to elicit materials from public bodies
under the Freedom of Information Act last year, it was confirmed today.
<http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=194847528&p=y94848z34>
Commissioners queried on fire protection
Waynesville Daily Guide - Waynesville,MO,USA
... a fire breaks out. Pulaski County lost virtually all of its county
records when the courthouse burned in 1903. To prevent a repetition ...
<http://www.waynesvilledailyguide.com/articles/2006/09/08/news/news05.txt
>
"Smoking gun" evidence uncovered in Ohio of massive vote fraud in ...
Online Journal - Silver Springs,FL,USA
... Pursuant to a federal law that permits the destruction of ballots,
including absentee ... in a protective order being issued for ballots
and voting records in all ...
<http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1181.shtml>
Photographic masterpieces on display
Searcy Daily Citizen - Searcy,AR,USA
... Disfarmer’s glass negatives were used to make the silver gelatin
prints in his Main Street studio from the 1930’s through at least 1945,
and a collection ...
<http://www.thedailycitizen.com/articles/2006/09/08/news/local_news/news0
1.txt>
Setting Up a Compliant Records Management Program: Where Do You ...
TechLINKS (press release) - Atlanta,GA,USA
... Companies now realize that inadequate infrastructure around records
storage, dissemination and retention can carry significant consequences.
...
<http://www.techlinks.net/CommunityPublishing/tabid/92/articleType/Articl
eView/articleId/3648/Setting-Up-a-Compliant-Records-Management-Program-Wh
ere-Do-You-Start.aspx>
BFI to make archive films available for download
New Media Age - London,UK
The British Film Institute, through digital media company 7 Digital, is
to offer over 600,000 films from its National Archive for the public to
download. ...
<http://www.nma.co.uk/Articles/29328/BFI+to+make+archive+films+available+
for+download.html>
Leaders sought for Black Archives
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... A Missouri archivist Thursday night described the situation as dire,
with some ... government has offered to house the materials until the
archives moves into a ...
<http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/15465547.htm>
How to keep your secrets from walking out the door
Globe and Mail - Canada
... businesses may be leaving themselves open to information theft
because
they ... Work contracts can cover trade secrets, know-how and exclusive
information, he said ...
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060908.SRSMALLBIZ08/T
PStory/Business>
Chase Card Services Trashes Circuit City Customer Details
CIO - Framingham,MA,USA
... Iron Mountain, demonstrating ... Iron Mountain lost a box of backup
tapes containing 600,000 current and former Time Warner employees’
personal
data in May 2005. ...
<http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=24646>
Chase Card Services dumps customer details in landfill
Techworld.com - London,UK
... Iron Mountain, demonstrating vulnerability to data loss a second
time,
lost tapes in April 2006, relating to 17,000 Long Island Railroad
employees
and other ...
<http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?newsID=6820&pagtype=all>
Winning the Compliance Game
Dr. Dobb's Journal - San Mateo,California,USA
... Those with the best compliance records put more money into security
equipment ... healthcare firm Consilium1 worked with, for example, was
shredding documents in ...
<http://www.ddj.com/dept/security/192700169>
Deciphering the Technical Side of Written Discovery
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... While the primary deliverables of this stage are the actual software
source code files, coders generate a number of additional documents that
can be useful in ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1157706324871>
Path is Long for Compliance Readiness
Insurance Networking News - New York,NY,USA
... widespread understanding of what paper records are and how they
should
be retained, vs. 34% who described electronic records this way.
<http://www.insurancenetworking.com/protected/article.cfm?articleId=4301&
pb=ros>
Upon Security Breaches and Data Thefts
Zone-H - Tallinn,Estonia
... A flourishing "black market" for stolen computer data is growing ,
according to experts who study computer crime and corporate espionage,
as reported by ...
<http://www.zone-h.org/content/view/14148/31/>
Public Archives Help Grow Family Trees
Managing Information - UK
... Are?’, which follows the journeys of celebrities as they trace their
family trees, research carried out by the Museums, Libraries and
Archives
Council (MLA ...
<http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=5165>
New Hope United Methodist to dedicate archives
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
... a retired Toledo Public School library worker, began in January
compiling
photographs, articles, and historical documents to create the archives
that date back ...
<http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060909/NEWS10/609080
84/-1/NEWS>
Jewish sound archives race to preserve ethnic sounds
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States
... The Judaica Sound Archives at the university now has about 60,000
unique
songs, many of them in Yiddish, and it has become one of the largest
repositories
of ...
<http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/15476329.htm>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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